RASED calls on PA to join the international human rights conventions

BEIRUT, (PIC)– The Palestinian organization for monitoring Human Rights “RASED” called on the Palestinian Authority to accelerate the accession to the Rome Statute, and all international human rights treaties and conventions, after the decision of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to grant Palestine non-member observer state status at the United Nations

RASED stressed, in a statement on Sunday, on the need to join immediately these international agreements, and called on PA to respect freedom of the press and freedom of opinion and expression and to protect freedoms and institutions in the State of Palestine.

The statement pointed out that “the past year has witnessed the worst violence against press and freedom of opinion and expression in the Palestinian territories (Gaza – West Bank), where PA has closed RASED offices in West Bank without any legal justification.

RASED expressed its wish to see prosecutors at the International Criminal Court studying what the Palestinian Authority’s upgraded status, where Prosecutors at The Hague previously rejected in April Palestinian request to investigate Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip that began in December 2008, saying that only internationally recognized states could accept jurisdiction.

* The list of shuhada does not display, the numerous victims of the zionist occupation which are undocumented by media. Nor it displays the victims of the “silent onslaught” due to restrictions of movement, ability to go to hospitals for treatment or life saving surgery, due to lack of medication because of the blockades and so on. For example: The Slow Motion Genocide by the Siege on Gaza only, killed 600 patients since Gaza got under Israeli Siege.

Neither does this list, display the avoidable mortality. A clear and statistical factual evidence, about the number of deaths due to indecent ruling by occupation forces. For even an occupier has obligations under International Laws, Geneva Convention and the Hague regulations, which it is neglecting. These circumstances, together with deliberate policies of the occupier to neglect and even deny every basic human right, severes avoidable mortality which is totally silenced by media or reporting organisations. While in the Holocaust, 1 on 6 Jewish people directly died of deliberate neglect, so if we believe the facts over 1 million due to avoidable mortality, neither should these same circumstances be ignores which are ongoing in Palestine. For this report displays a avoidable morality of at least 0,5 million Palestinians.

How many more dead corpses of Palestinians does the international community need to see in order to act? How many more cruelties and violations of Human Rights, Regulations and International Law will be needed to intervene so this ongoing warcrime is being stopped once and for all.